one day this will be more than merely theoretical.

‘…With modern computer driven weaponry at their fingertips, any resistance appears futile. Some Americans, though, do their homework, and discover that most successful revolutions against better equipped opponents utilize low tech methods in highly intelligent ways. They study the inherent weaknesses of the enemy weapons platforms using readily available online manuals and scientific journals. They realize that these pieces of equipment costing millions of dollars each can be defeated using methods that cost little more than pocket change….’ source
(via Woodpile Report. link on sidebar)

A “documentary”* about an alien invasion? So it’s true then? Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones actually have those cool guns? Bill Paxman will save the world from Zero-voting Zombies and O-bots (well, that could actually happen)?

* [dok-yuh-men-tuh-ree] Movies, Television based on or re-creating an actual event, era, life story, etc., that purports to be factually accurate and contains no fictional elements.

They realize that these pieces of equipment costing millions of dollars each can be defeated using methods that cost little more than pocket change…

Then they are remarkably stupid – they think this only because leftist communists have prevented the US from using nuclear strikes for the last 70 years. For example, if Israel decided to solve the Iranian problem in the only conceivable way – counter value strikes on all major population centres – what “low tech” defences are even conceivable?

The fact that Iran remains a problem for Israel is purely because communists prevent Israel from acting in its own rational best interest – not because it is afraid of a few low-tech radioactive mutants.

Looks like about the most fun you can have with your pants on. I’d love to have the money to play around with that kind of stuff. Some of those weapons, especially the tripod-mounted rifle, look like they’d be fun to play with too!

The sub-text to this is that these lines of thought are becoming ever more popular in American internet sources. As an early internet ‘digital immigrant’ [1990], I have never seen such intensity before.

It cannot possibly be said that The Big 0 has been a force for social cohesion in the United States.

Just recently on an other quite innocuous US-heavy gaming website, there was a huge shyte-fight over the use of the term “Jap” in relation to WW2 that ended in “the moderator” nixing posts and dishing out “that’s racist!” warnings to those having the temerity to use this everyday benign expression. [Ironically Sky’s History Channel last night featured a clip of no less a person than the US Secretary of State at the time of Pearl Harbor in which he asserted “the Japs” might have started it, but the US would end it.] The Big 0 has polarised Americans and injected into its enfeebled body an obsession with “race” virus. That will be his legacy.

The contrast between America of 1941 and that of 2012 is frightening. A real worry.

‘I believe that politicians, lawyers, busy-bodies and do-gooders are like salamis- greatly improved by hanging for a time.’ Oswald Bastable

"The loss of freedom is like cancer; it will spread slowly but surely across all parts of society until our liberty has been utterly eaten away and we are left with nothing but a half-forgotten idea of what freedom was."